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!ko-Buschmänner (Südafrika, Kalahari) - Festtanz »guma«   [Other Title]

!ko Bushmen (South Africa, Kalahari Desert) - Exorcising Dance »guma«   [Title Translation]
Year of origin: 1970
Genre: Documentary Film
Locations of shooting: n/a

Credits
Production company: Dieter Heunemann (Percha b. Starnberg)
First released by: IWF (Göttingen)
Distributor: IWF (Göttingen)
Producer: Alfons Michael Dauer
Author: Dieter Heunemann
  H. J. Heinz


Keywords: !ko-Buschmänner, Botswana, Ekstase, Festtanz, Gruppentanz, Guma, Singen, Tanz, Trance, Botswana, Dance, ecstasy, feast dance, group dance, guma, trance, ['singing', 'singing']
The film, a compression of several hours, begins before everyone has arrived at the scene of dancing. Music and rhythm are still disorganized. Slowly seriousness creeps into the atmosphere and men shuffling around the circle begin to administer to the women by placing their hands on the latter's heads or shoulders, thereby taking into their bodies the evil with which the harmful God /oa has charged the women. Men in a trance become evident. Their wailing prayers are heard. Explosively retching, they expel the evil they have taken into their bodies from the women. The film continues with a highly emotionally charged atmosphere in which men are trance dancing and women, while watching over them to avert injury, stimulate them to greater efforts with their ululating songs and rhythmic clapping.

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Duration: 11 min

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